Oakmont Consulting
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000
Location: Hybrid (1 day WFH)
A CleanTech company producing low energy, low carbon products is looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their R&D team.
You'll take ownership of mechanical design across new and existing products, working closely with a multidisciplinary engineering team from concept through to production.
What you'll be doing:
- Design for manufacture, including selecting materials and manufacturing methods for new products
- Engineering analysis including stress/strain calculations using FEA software
- Creating and maintaining BOMs and parts lists
- Risk assessment and failure mode/effects analysis
- Testing and problem-solving on development projects and live production
- Managing relationships with sub-contract suppliers for bespoke assemblies
- Project management of assigned work packages
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What you'll need:
- 4+ years' mechanical design experience within an SME manufacturing/production environment
- Full lifecycle development experience, from concept through to production
- FEA experience
- 2:1 or above in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
- Strong 3D and 2D CAD skills (Solidworks preferred)
- Hands-on experience building and testing prototypes


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